Access Quotes

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

Athletics is a luxury.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.

People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.

Yesterday the President had one of his busiest days. …. The corridor outside his study has been filled with gentlemen all day long. I often wonder how it is possible to adjust to so many different people and their interests in the course of a day, but after all that is one of the things every President must learn to do.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Let the path be open to talent.

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

A man has as much right to go across a river as to go up and down the river.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Money is the key that opens all locks.